We have watched with fascination as the price of gas continues to climb.  People are being stretched further than they ever have.  Blame whoever you want (there's plenty to go around), but things are getting tight.

So how come our prices haven't doubled in the last year?  Well, quite frankly, our expenses simply haven't gone up that much.  You see, we employ a different business model from most companies.  We don't pay rent on a big building somewhere that houses workers that have to commute 100 miles a day.  We trust the people that work for us (and they are located throughout the US).  We honestly don't care if they choose to work at 7 am while munching down a bowl of Cap'n Crunch.  They don't live in a cubicle, so they can blare the music as loud as they want.  And if they want to write code in their PJs?  Well, quite frankly, that's their business.

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In the last two months, we have retrieved two clients from the depths of offshoring purgatory.  What is that, you say?  It's that self-delusion place where you swear to your friends that you're getting your website professionally done for $10.81 an hour. Sorry, we calls 'em like we sees 'em.  These two particular clients discovered that, by the time they had to explain the same thing to the vendor three times, wait 24 hours every time a correction was needed, and corrected all of the mistakes that had been made, they had spent far more than $10.81 an hour.